Francesco Hayez
Samson and the Lion
1842
Oil on canvas
210 x 162 cm
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Firenze
Francesco Hayez
Samson and the Lion
1842
Oil on canvas
210 x 162 cm
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Firenze
Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900)
The Natural Bridge, Virginia
Oil on canvas
1852
58.42 x 71.12 cm___
For his spectacular and panoramic paintings of the wilderness of North and South America, Frederic Edwin Church was a dominant figure in the second generation of the Hudson River School. His canvases celebrated the drama of the American frontier and expressed the expansionist and optimistic outlook of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century.
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